During a meeting with LGBTI activists, World Bank President Jim Young Kim announced the Bank will hire its first sexual orientation and gender identity rights advisor. Kim also committed funds to analyze the cost of homophobia.

The Australian government pledged $29 million to services for LGBTI people, including $15 million to build a ‘Pride Centre.’ Funds also will be set for gender dysphoria services, funding to combat homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, and a focus on mental health youth programs.

Hong Kong is lobbying to host the International Gay Games. And in the US, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) voted to move all future games away from cities that cannot ‘prove they can provide an environment free of discrimination‘—throwing into question collegiate games in states with anti-LGBT legislation.

The BBC produced the documentary Beyond Binary, exploring the communities of non-binary people around the world. And Canadian playwright and filmmaker Alec Butler described the experience of going through puberty as an intersex person—’getting a beard and a period at the same time.’

And finally, check out these adorable ‘gay’ male vultures in Germany that are ‘attempting to start a family‘ by nesting and caring for an egg abandoned by its mother.

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